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'Lanyado charts her many years of treating very disturbed children, often with appalling histories of abuse, neglect and abandonment, in a variety of settings. She is especially concerned with exploring the personal nature of what the therapist takes into the the consulting room and how this links with the process of therapeutic change... Lanyado uses many clinical examples to weave her thoughts around the central theme of the presence of the therapist in the process of psychic change wrought in the clinical encounter... Lanyado's account of her work and her thoughtful, imaginative way of making sense of it... shows her readers how this deep and courageous preparedness to know one's own responses is ultimately in the service of reaching the patient.' - Angela Joyce, International Journal of Psychoanalysis

This book is the distillation of many years of rich experience of psychotherapy with traumatized children. The author has reflected sensitively and constructively on her own and her patients' experiences. This [book] goes beyond the experiences and training of the therapist and involves the 'essence' of the therapist, something that cannot be left outside the consulting room. It is under constant observation by the patient, especially in the close face-to-face work with children and adolescents where the therapist inevitably must sometimes be active. The author illustrates her theme very vividly in her well-chosen case histories. I find the thesis of this book very cogent. It helped me clarify in retrospect some of my own clinical experience. It adds another dimension to thinking about tranference and counter-transference. I think the book merits serious consideration and am happy to recommend it to therapists of adults as well as children.. <br>-Isabel Menzies Lyth, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst <br>

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Monica Lanyado is a psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist. She is co-editor, with Ann Horne, of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches.

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